《My change》英语作文

路过匆匆2022-10-04 11:39:542条回答

已提交,审核后显示!提交回复

共2条回复
xxz0106 共回答了24个问题 | 采纳率95.8%
Change has been the one constant in my life. While staring out at the bleak Wisconsin winter, I think back to my beginnings on a warm tropical island. The biggest change was probably the first — moving from that buzzing Spanish-speaking isle to the sleepy sea-side town that was Tampa in 1978. It took me some time to realize that the other pre-schoolers could not understand my native tongue. Before long, I too was speaking their language.
Five years later I, an excited eight-year-old girl, boarded a school bus in New Jersey. The excitement quickly turned to fear as I heard rampant swearing in the back of the bus. I was truly shocked when the bus driver did nothing to stop the vulgarity. In my schools in Florida such behavior would have met with a bar of soap and a visit to the principal’s office. A year later, I had a "Jersey" accent, and had started swearing too.
After nine years my family then moved to a place called "a whole ’nother country": Texas. I discovered that everything is bigger in Texas, from the size of a glass of ice tea to the distances on the road. My mother added barbecued brisket to the regular menu of turkey and Idaho potatoes on Monday and arroz con pollo on Tuesday.
The incredibly friendly Texans, wearing cowboy boots and going to high school football games on Friday nights, seemed a totally different breed from my friends in New Jersey. A slight drawl entered my speech.
In two years time, I found myself in the mountains of rural Bolivian. As part of a team of doctors and students researching hypertension on a group of African- Bolivian villagers, I quickly learned a new vocabulary that included medical and anthropological terms. The greatest test of my linguistic abilities came when a villager accused me of drinking blood samples in some kind of vampire-like witchcraft ritual. I had to bridge a vast cultural gulf to explain a DNA isolation and analysis protocol in Spanish to someone who had never heard of a gene much less a double helix.
A year later I stood in a line at a McDonalds outside Buenos Aires asking for a sorbeto with a Puerto Rican accent and receiving a blank stare in return. I did not realize that in Argentina the word for straw was papote. Working at the U.S. embassy, I could clearly see the obvious differences between the U.S. and Argentina, but being out among the people and actually experiencing the culture helped me begin to understand and appreciate the subtle differences which, when taken together, make up a people.
Each place I have lived has its differences, from the obvious distinctions of Wisconsin and Texas weather, to the regional variations of the Spanish language. I bring with me wherever I go a part of those places and the impact they have had on my life, most evident to others by the variations in my speech. Beneath all the accents, however, lies something more significant, for I believe who you are is immeasurable more important than where you were. When I was younger, I could not clearly discern between situations where I should or should not adopt the ways of those around me. With maturity however I have come to understand the crucial difference between adaptation and assimilation. I have chosen to reject the vulgarity of the New Jersey school bus; I have also adopted the Texans’ warm and friendly manner. Having experienced frequent moves to very different surroundings, I can adapt without compromising what is important to me while learning from each new setting.
A sign hung in my garage for many years that said, "Home is where you can scratch where it itches." To me this means that home is wherever you are comfortable and secure with yourself and your surroundings. I will be at home and prepared to meet new challenges wherever I am. Starting over so many times has taught me not to fear failure, but rather to embrace opportunities for change
1年前
上zz狗狗 共回答了2个问题 | 采纳率
谁会帮你写啊 我还有两篇作文
1年前

相关推荐

谁可以用used to和now i am.写一篇作文,初中水平标题:my change,靠你们了
yanxiaobei1年前2
快乐狗尾草 共回答了18个问题 | 采纳率100%
My change
I am a middle school student now.I think I grow up.And I have many changes.
I used to finish my homework with other's help.But now I do it by myself.
I used to be a lazy guy.But now I am hard-working.I often help my mother do housework.
And so on.So I am happy.I believe I will be better and better.
英语作文my change 50词
liqiong12341年前2
玉玉133 共回答了12个问题 | 采纳率66.7%
My changes
How time flies !One years passed by .I'm 12 years old .I think i change a lot in these years .For example ,i begin to like studying math .And my hair was long and blank .What is the most ,i put on weight .Sometimes ,i think i look like a panda .In all ,i begin to understand my parents why they always ask me to do more homework .In fact ,they hope me have a good future.打字累死我了
关于《My Change》六年级英语作文(不少于8句)
藕断絲連1年前1
幽夜百合 共回答了18个问题 | 采纳率88.9%
Let me tell you the change between when i was a bady and when i was a student.
When i was a bady , i was just two years old ,i was beatiful ,healthy , i had ...
英语作文My change 60词,急,
mowenwo1年前2
东东_119 共回答了24个问题 | 采纳率91.7%
I have changed a lot in the last few years.When I was young,I used to have long hair,but now,I have short curly hair.in the past,I used to ……,but now……(不断重复即可),结尾可写:people don't stop changing,I think I will be older and older.
以my change为主题来写一片关于自律自信自省自悦的600字习作该向什么方向写?
hcm3171年前1
zhangsuojun 共回答了16个问题 | 采纳率87.5%
前后对比,比如以前很xx样,经过某事(物,话语等)启示,刺激,最后就xx样了